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In addition to this. It is also important to know what are the restrictions when you are still a newbie.
Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.
Note that this does not affect:
- PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
- "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
But it does affect:
- Voting in polls
- Patroller jurisdiction
- The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
- "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
- BBCode limits
- Reduced-accuracy link filtering
- Board restrictions
Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.
In a nutshell. You need to create better post which you think that can add up for the betterment of the forum. Post naturally because you do not want to end up being a merit hunter right?. After receiving at least 1 merit, you can now wear your signature.
Read the forum rules btw. I hope this answers your question.